As the second wife of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn was one of the most powerful women in the world in the 16th century. In fact, Henry’s desire to annul his first marriage to Katherine of Aragon so he ...
Henry VIII was the King of England for almost 40 years before his death in 1547. In that time he married six different women, treating many of them with utter contempt, and even sending a few to the ...
As the second wife of King Henry VIII, she was the queen who was long pursued - and then brutally discarded. But was Anne Boleyn - the mother of Queen Elizabeth I - really guilty of adultery with ...
King Henry VIII remains one of England's most famous kings. His nearly four-decade reign marked a period of huge change for the country, and the complications of his line of succession would continue ...
Netflix’s new mini series, Blood Sex & Royalty, explores the fascinating and dramatically short life of Anne Boleyn, a woman who rose to power as the mistress-turned-wife of King Henry VIII in Tudor ...
No one really knows what Anne Boleyn actually looked like. After she was executed in 1536 (for treason, incest, adultery-anything, really, that Henry VIII could think of to rid himself of her so he ...
There is a piece of jewellery in the Victoria and Albert Museum which was given by Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn at the height of their love affair, before things went sour. It is a gold whistle, shaped ...
Henry VIII, King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547, is best known for his brutality, as well as for his six marriages. One famous adage goes: divorced, beheaded, and died, divorced, ...
When antique dealer Paul Fitzsimmons bought an ornate wooden bird from an auction for £75 ($101) in 2019, he knew that it must have been associated with a member of the royal family – but he just didn ...
Their relationship may have been, um, cut short, but Jodie Turner-Smith’s Anne Boleyn and Mark Stanley’s Henry VIII look pretty cosy in the first image of the pair from the upcoming Channel 5 drama.
Their relationship may have been, um, cut short, but Jodie Turner-Smith’s Anne Boleyn and Mark Stanley’s Henry VIII look pretty cosy in the first image of the pair from the upcoming Channel 5 drama.